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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
The other thing you have to consider is that it's really not worth it to take a McJob other than for personal pride. If you do, that money comes right off the top of your unemployment insurance benefits. So basically you work for money you'd get anyway and you lose the hours out of the day that you could use more productively to go after REAL jobs in your own field, build your skills, network, etc. That's what it came down to (aside from the fact that there really wasn't anything available anyway). I actually did a little "under the table" stuff but it wasn't nearly enough to live on (maybe 10 hours a week occasionally).
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That's the boat I was in when I lost my job a few years ago. I could have easily gotten a job selling guns at a local gun store that would have paid better and been a lot easier than a McJob. But it would have murdered my day as far as looking for a better job or going to interviews. I even had a decent job offer before I lost my job, but was pretty sure I could find a better one before that job's start date. And I did. I'd have been in bad shape if I had gone right to working 40+ hrs/wk just to make more than UI paid and lost all that time I instead put into looking for a better job. Right about the time Mrs. Lee was starting to think I was a bum, I had a better job and making more money than my previous one. But man, I treated that job search like a full time job.